Captain Sensible: Solo &
Beyond... (1983)

This
listing of appearances by Captain Sensible for 1983, outside of The
Damned, should be considered as 'work in progress'.

* (as) Captain
Sensible

Saturday 27
August 1983 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock

Set: unknown.

Comments: Captain Sensible was one of a number of support
acts for a Barry Manilow concert at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Thursday 21
April 1983 - Greyhound, Hammersmith, London

Set: unknown.

Comments: Part of Artists for Animals campaign (set up to
abolish vivisection). Advertising for this show indicated Captain Sensible with Dolly
Mixture, Benjamin Zephaniah and A Popular History Of Signs as the acts
due to perform - however, a review of a Greyhound gig in the music
press (New Musical Express of 21 May 1983) featuring the same artists
[rather a coincidence unless a further show was played the next month
with the same contributing artists!? ...Oh and there was no obvious
booking for a separate show in Fulham advertising for May], stated that
the Captain compered throughout the show and also ready some poetry on
the subject matter, that Dolly Mixture played in their own right, and
that The Damned actually appeared as the final act... just playing
'Smash It Up'. Of course, there is nothing to say that all members of
The Damned were present...?

12 March 1983 -
Trafalgar Square, London

Set: unknown.

Comments: Anti-seal culling rally organised by the British
Union for
the Abolition of Vivisection. The Captain was certainly on stage for
this event (pictured in New Musical Express music paper dated 19
April), but whether just to voice opinions, or whether to sing any
numbers is unknown.